Mission
The VDES Alliance works to create a more connected and secure maritime world by accelerating the use of VDES technologies, ensuring all stakeholders can benefit from enhanced data exchange and communication at sea.
Vision
Interoperability between all industries in the maritime sector of connectivity on the globe.
Strategy
- Being a non-profit alliance of stakeholders interested in making VDES a success.
- Providing common marketing resources for VDES as a technology.
- Providing the missing links that are not yet covered by IALA, ITU, IMO or other international and governmental organizations, which are as of today:
- assignment of VDE-Sat network ID,
- assignment of VDE-Sat SAT ID, and
- Organize Inter-Operability Tests (IOTs) between the members and help members to contribute to standardization, both on the air- and presentation interface.
- Support the harmonization of new VDES applications.
- Stand aligned in patent issues.
- Help alignment on the understanding of the related standards by collecting, organizing review and providing mutually approved reference data to the VDES Alliance members.
- Recognizing that AIS is an integral part of VDES, work towards the exclusiveness of VDES in SOLAS mandatory carriage requirements.